A device for extracting glass containers for pharmaceutical and/or cosmetic use from trays that have recesses or impressions housing glass containers or the like arranged consecutively includes a wheel sector or star segment, which is caused to rotate around a horizontal axis in a circular path and which is brought above a tray moved forward at the same peripheral speed as the wheel sector or star segment. An outer peripheral surface of the wheel sector or star segment is formed as an arc of circumference and carries extraction pincers of the single glass container arranged between each other at a first reciprocal distance equal to that between the recesses or impressions of the tray, each of said extraction pincers having a pair of yielding arms that house a single glass container.

An object processing system is disclosed for facilitating removal of objects from a trailer of a tractor trailer. The object processing system includes an object obstruction detection system for identifying an obstruction during removal of objects, a force application system for applying any of a plurality of defined forces to the obstruction, an assessment system for collecting force feedback information responsive to the application of force to the obstruction and providing assessment information, and a control system for providing a removal model for removing the obstruction based on the assessment information.

The present disclosure provides a battery piece feeding device and a soldering stringer, the battery piece feeding device is configured to lay battery pieces onto a soldering conveying device, the battery piece feeding device includes two picking mechanisms, both of the picking mechanisms are configured to alternately pick up the battery pieces from a battery piece picking position and lay the picked battery pieces onto the soldering conveying device. When one picking mechanism picks up the battery piece from the battery piece picking position, the other picking mechanism lays the picked battery piece onto the soldering conveying device. By arranging the two picking mechanisms and controlling the two picking mechanisms to alternately pick up the battery pieces from the battery piece picking position and lay the picked battery pieces onto the soldering conveying device, the battery piece feeding device greatly improves the battery piece feeding efficiency.

An electrical connection device for connecting a plug, preferably a HV pin header, to a printed circuit board in a motor vehicle, having the following: at least one first electrical connection-device for contacting at least one assigned plug-connector contact; at least one second electrical connection-device contact for contacting at least one assigned printed-circuit-board contact wherein at least one first connection-device contact at least one second connection-device contact are connected to one another, wherein the electrical connection device is configured in such a manner that at least one printed-circuit-board contact is able to be selectively connected to assigned plug-connector contacts which differ in terms of the relative disposal thereof in relation to the printed-circuit-board contact and/or differ from one another in that said plug-connector contacts are a component part of plug connectors which differ from one another in terms of the configuration of the respective plug-connector contacts thereof.

A food product handling device is provided. The food product handling device can include a movable loading head having a plurality of rails and a vacuum system operatively associated with the head. In addition, a plurality of suction devices carried by the head and configured to pick up and transport a food product as the head is moved can be provided. A plurality of mounting blocks can be slidably coupled to the rails where at least one suction device is coupled to each mounting block. An actuating device can be operatively associated with the mounting blocks such that each mounting block is configured to slide between a first position and a second position.

A method for separating and transporting a glass sheet from a glass ribbon includes drawing the glass ribbon along a draw path in a conveyance direction, scoring the glass ribbon with a scoring device, to produce a score line across at least a portion of a width of the glass ribbon, engaging a first edge of the glass ribbon at a first position downstream of the score line in the conveyance direction with a first robotic handling device, engaging a second edge of the glass ribbon at a second position downstream of the score line in the conveyance direction with a second robotic handling device, and synchronously moving the first robotic handling device and the second robotic handling device to bend the glass ribbon about the score line and separate the glass sheet from the glass ribbon.

An improved robot for packing produce such as fruit or other produce is provided. The robot includes a plurality of longitudinal carriage arms arranged in an array, and cantilevered off a support unit such that each longitudinal carriage arm is independently movable between an extended condition and retracted condition. Each arm includes a head connected to it that is independently movable in a vertical direction to pick up, hold and/or drop off an item of produce. Each longitudinal carriage arm is further independently movable in a lateral direction to alter the relative spacing between the plurality of heads such that the heads can move across lanes of the robot. The cantilevered arrangement of each carriage arm allows for compact set-out and other advantages.

An apparatus for sorting and stacking slab-shaped elements has an inlet line; plural suction gripping units; a sorting carousel rotatable around an axis and including multiple carousel arms mutually solidly constrained and each bearing a respective one of the plurality suction gripping units; a plurality of seats for receiving the slab-shaped elements, forming stacks thereof; and a support crown solidly constrained to a frame. The carousel axis and an axis of the support crown coincide with one another. Each carousel arm is supported by the support crown at or in proximity of a respective free end. A first slab-shaped element from the inlet line can be gripped by a first one of the suction gripping units, rotated by a first one of the carousel arms which bears the first suction gripping unit, and released by the first suction gripping unit on a first of the seats.

An apparatus for sorting and stacking slab-shaped elements (2), for example tiles, has an inlet line; a plurality of suction gripping units; a plurality of rotating arms which each bear a suction gripping unit; a plurality of seats for receiving the slab-shaped elements, forming stacks of slab-shaped elements; and a support crown which is solidly constrained to a frame. The rotating arms are mobile independently of one another; the rotating arms and the support crown are relatively dimensioned so that each rotating arm is supported by the support crown at or near the respective free end.

Robotic assembly systems and methods of assembling products using planar robots. Planar movers cooperate magnetically with stators to pick products provided on an infeed and place them in a pattern on an outfeed system, wherein the movers having a clamp having at least two opposing clamping surfaces whose relative positions are continuously adjustable by a force from an object external to the mover and the stator. Sensors and controllers cooperate to precisely move the movers on the stator, particularly as a group, for the movers to pick respective products at respective picking locations. Some systems permit packaging of multiple products.